agricultural and mechanical pursuits, for salaries of employes, and for the education of their children, &c. MONTANA. The Indian tribes residing within the limits of Montana are the Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans, the Gros Ventres of the Prairie, the Assinaboines, the Yanktonais, Santee and Teton (so called) Sioux, a portion of the northern Arapahoes and Cheyennes, the River Crows, the Mountain Crows, the Flatheads, Pend d'Oreilles, and Kootenays, and a few Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheep-Eaters, numbering in the aggregate about 32,412. They are all, or nearly all, native to the regions now occupied by them respectively. The following table will exhibit the population of each of these tribes, as nearly as the same can be ascertained:-- Blackfeet, Bloods, and Piegans 7,500 Assinaboines 4,790 Gros Ventres 1,100 Santee, Yanktonais, Uncpapa, and Cut-Head Sioux, at Milk River agency 2,625 River Crows 1,240 Mountain Crows 2,700 Flatheads 460 Pend d'Oreilles 1,000 Kootenays 320 Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheep-Eaters 677 Roving Sioux, commonly called Teton Sioux, including those gathered during 1872, at and near Fort Peck, (largely estimated) 8,000 ------- Estimated total 30,412 The number of northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes roaming in Montana, who, it is believed, have co-operated with the Sioux under "Sitting Bull," in their depredations, is not known: it is probably less than 1,000.